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Franklin County (Kansas) Historical Society Archives & Research CenterIt almost sounds like a bad sit-com: A French aristocrat moves to rural Kansas to start a silk-making commune. But it really happened, more than 150 years ago, and although—spoiler alert—the commune failed, it can still tell us much about what life in the United States was like back then—and what it’s like today. -
Robert G. McCubbin Collection/Robert G. McCubbin CollectionOne legend of the Old West involves a Mexican-American lawman who grew up in Topeka. The lawman once fought off dozens of gunfighters in New Mexico in a battle that lasted more than 30 hours. After 4,000 rounds were fired, the lawman emerged unscathed. Commentator Katie Keckeisen has more on the legend of Elfego Baca and his connection to Kansas.
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The tallgrass prairie is mostly confined to the Kansas Flint Hills in eastern Kansas. But earlier this year, some of that grass - up to 5 feet tall - started sprouting further west, out in the Smoky Hills of central Kansas. What's going on here? Commentator Rex Buchanan explains. -
A new documentary profiles ranchers in Greenwood County, Kansas, including a young couple trying to make a go of it as ranchers and small business owners in rural Kansas. -
Telescope technology has advanced, well, astronomically in the last fifty years. But who gets to use these magical machines that can look millions of years back in time? Thousands of astronomers from around the world apply for access to super-telescopes every year in a process that is both rigorous and highly competitive. -
After three years and $6 million worth of renovations, the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka will reopen to the public on Saturday. KPR's Jim McLean got a sneak preview of what's in store for visitors. -
Ever taken a canoe trip down the mighty Missouri River through downtown Kansas City? Commentator Rex Buchanan has and he did so with some trepidation. -
"Honor to the Soldier and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as best he can, the same cause." —Abraham Lincoln, 1863 -
Visitors to the National World War One Museum in Kansas City walk across a glass bridge. Underneath, nine thousand red poppies appear to stare upward. What's the meaning behind all these poppies? As we approach Veterans Day on Tuesday, we hear from Dr. Christopher Warren, chief curator at the National World War One Museum in Kansas City, to find out. -
Football coach Marv Levy guided the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the 1990s...but that wouldn't happen until after the Kansas City Chiefs fired him. -
Commentator Scott Carlberg says nuclear power is like potato chips. The classic chip is great. But a ridged, sharp cheddar chip? That’s next-level. Advanced nuclear plants are that next level, only better — maybe even the jalapeño-salsa chip of the energy world. -
October 14 is the 135th anniversary of the birth of Dwight D. Eisenhower, our nation's 34th president. Eisenhower grew up in Abilene, which is where his presidential library is located. The author of a new book tries to separate fact from fiction in Eisenhower's eventful life story.
